The Labour Party are facing calls for an investigation into their campaign tactics after a postcard campaign targeted 250,000 women at risk of breast cancer, saying that a Conservative government would scrap two-week specialist referral for suspected breast cancer patients. Apart from being completely untrue, this type of scaremongering is downright shameless.

Locally, too, Labour have been fighting a nasty campaign with one of their candidates in Knights Hill ward putting up a poster in the window of her £400,000 house saying ‘Don’t vote for rich Tory toffs’.

We think that this is all getting a little silly. There are plenty of important issues to campaign on without resorting to these types of petty stunts. The Labour Party has big questions to answer (such as how come Britain has ended up with a £1 trillion national debt!) and they should focus on answering those questions rather than wasting time on irrelevant negative campaigning.